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Female Birders Flocking to Colombia – Fam Trip

3rd December – 10th December, 2019

©Tico Angulo

Nature Colombia tour leader: Diana Balcázar-Niño

This tour was for women and by women! This means that is was exclusively

designed for female birders, offered by a Colombian company owned by two

women, and guided by a woman. And at the same time that it was focused on

something that we really like –which is watching birds! – it was aimed to support

life projects -related to conservation- that women do in Colombia to get ahead with



their families and their community under very difficult social and economic

conditions.

The tour, which responds to a totally innovative concept was created and

organized by Nature Colombia, with the support of Procolombia. In this first

version it was a fam trip for media influencers and owners of birdwatching

companies. We took participants to the northern Colombia (the Caribbean Coast),

one of the most interesting regions of the country for nature lovers and famed for

its high level of endemic bird species. We recorded 209 bird species, including 16

endemics and 14 near endemics.

In parallel, we visited two local communities, one of afro people in the village of La

Boquilla, next to the famous walled city of Cartagena, and another of members of

the Wayuu ethnic group, in the department of La Guajira.

It was a trip full of emotions, joys, adventures, fellowship, discoveries, beautiful

and admirable people, incomparable landscapes, and birds that delighted us with

their songs, colors and mysteries! A trip in which all the objectives were met. And

we want to do it again!

Our group was constituted by Wendy Clark, of Bird Watcher´s Digest, Ruth Miller,

of Birdwatching Trips, Eliana Ardila, of Birding by Bus, and Bryony Angell, writer

and social media influencer; as well as by Juliana Torres, of Procolombia, Angela

Gómez, General Manager of Nature Colombia, and Luisa Fernanda Conto,

Commercial Director of Nature Colombia. The tour leader was Diana Balcázar-

Niño.

We deeply thank to all those ladies who accepted our invitation to come to

Colombia, and to all the people who, in communities, transport services, natural

reserves, hotels and restaurants along the way contributed to make this a true

success!



The group at Camarones. ©Tico Angulo

Itinerary

Day Date Morning Afternoon Overnight

1 03/12/19 AM and PM

Arrival to

Cartagena

Cartagena city

tour

Radisson

Cartagena

2 04/12/19 La Boquilla Universidad

del Norte

Barranquilla

Plaza Hotel

3 05/12/19 Km 4 and Isla

de Salamanca

NP

Minca narrow

road

Los Colores de

la Sierra Hotel

4 06/12/19 Los Colores de

la Sierra trail

El Dorado

Nature

Reserve

El Dorado

Nature

Reserve

5 07/12/19 San Lorenzo

Ridge

El Dorado

Nature

Reserve

El Dorado

Nature

Reserve

6 08/12/19 Drive to Las

Acacias

Restaurant

Tocoronama

community

Emerawa

Hotel

7 09/12/19 Camarones Transfer to Barranquilla



and Los

Flamencos NP

Barranquilla Plaza Hotel

8 10/12/19 Fly back home Fly back home

TOUR SUMMARY

Day 1. December 3. Arrival to Cartagena and city tour

Upon arrival in Cartagena by international flights, a city tour was offered to

visitors.

Cartagena is a city founded as a major port in 1533, located on the northern coast

of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region. It was strategically located between the

Magdalena and Sinú rivers and became the main port for trade between Spain and

its overseas empire, establishing its importance by the early 1540s. During the

colonial era it was a key port for the export of Peruvian silver to Spain and for the

import of African slaves. In order to defend it against pirate attacks in the

Caribbean, great castles and walls were built throughout the city. Cartagena's

colonial walled city and fortress were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

After enjoying the great city of Cartagena, we had a welcome dinner.

Day 2. December 4. Birding at the mangroves of La Boquilla and

workshops with the community

Early in the morning we visited La Boquilla, fishing village of African descendants

that for more than 200 years have had a heroic struggle of cultural resistance to

preserve its ancestral traditions and its environment of marshes and mangroves.

There, we navigated peaceful on boats by a well-preserved area of mangroves

where we saw a lot of shorebirds on its beaches and many other birds in the

vegetation. Some of the many birds we recorded where Black-necked Stilt,

Semipalmated Plover, Marbled Godwit, Least, Semipalmated, Spotted and Solitary

sandpipers, Lesser and Greater yellowlegs, Willet, Black Skimmer, and Caspian,

Royal and Large-billed terns. We also saw a variety of herons as Great-Blue, Redish

and Tricolored, and we enjoyed the yellow touches of at least three Prothonotary

Warblers in the roots and branches of the mangroves.

Later in the morning we visited two great conservation initiatives lead by women.

The first one was the DAMARTES (Damas y Madres del Arte), an association

composed of seven women who produce jewelry, vases, containers, belts and

accessories using coconut as raw material. They are the first women in La Boquilla



to produce their own income. There, we learned how to make a handicraft from

coconut.

The second activity was to learn how to make a turban as it is used by the afro-

descendant women. This activity was led by Dulce -of Ébano Cartagena-, a young

student of Social Communication who is investigating about the ancestral meaning

of the use of turbans in the afro community and the techniques to elaborate it, and

offers workshops on the subject to the women.

She says that: “Clothing has always been a fundamental component for the

formation of identity, status and others. This practice has adapted very well to the

system of capitalist cultural industries. However, it offers the possibility of

highlighting values close to Afro-descendant culture.

Consequently, I have designed a project called Ébano Cartagena, as a strategy to

reaffirm the aesthetics of Afro subjects and their historical heritage for humanity,

taking as a generating action a very important ancestral element for black culture

such as the turban. At the moment, it is focused on Cartagena de Indias, a city with

several Afro community councils and different cultural manifestations of our

population, but with low rates of self-recognition. We reach the public through

workshops, conversations, audiovisual pieces and, of course, clothing that

highlights our value.”

The activity of learning how to make turbans and getting to know Dulce was

challenging and inspiring and we had a lot of fun doing it.

Black-necked Stilt. © Roger Rodríguez

In the afternoon, we visited BATAMBORA, a project led by young entrepreneurs

from the Afro-descendant community of La Boquilla, committed to human and



economic development aimed at rescuing and preserving the cultural traditions of

the African heritage. With them, we learned how to play “los tambores”, their

traditional drums, soul of their traditional music.

In the late afternoon we moved to the city of Barranquilla, but before arriving to

our hotel we stop briefly at the dry scrub next to the Universidad del Norte. The

objective was to look for the endemic Chestnut-winged Chachalaca, which we

found in the company of Yellow Oriole, Greyish Saltator, Whooping Motmot,

Brown-Throated Parakeet, Scrub Greenlet and others.

Day 3. December 5. Km 4, Isla de Salamanca National Park and Minca

The first stop this day was at the flat KM 4 road which is surrounded by lagoons

and marshes. Walking with the temperature still cool of early morning, we were

glad to find a very good number of species including more Chesnut-winged

chachalacas, Northern Screamer, Blue-winged Teal, Scaled Dove, Ruddy and

Common ground doves, Purple Gallinule, Limpkin, several sandpipers as

Semipalmated and Spotted, Pied and Russet-throated puffbirds, Black-crested

Antshrike, Pied Water-Tyrant and Stripe-backed and Bicolored wrens.

We spent the rest of the morning in the extensive wetlands and mangroves of the

Isla de Salamanca National Park. This park is right in the middle of the

Barranquilla-Santa Marta highway and protects the most significant area of

mangroves in the Colombian Caribbean. There, we saw Bicolored Conebill, Yellow-

chinned Spinetail, Bare-throated Tiger-Heron, Straight-billed Woodcreeper and

Panama Flycatcher, among several other birds.

Russet-throated Puffbird. ©Roger Rodríguez



In the late morning we started driving East through the park and later we climbed

into the foothills of the Santa Marta Mountains to a little town called Minca, where

we had lunch. At the restaurant bird feeders, we enjoyed seeing Steely-vented

Hummingbird, White-vented Plumeleteer and White-necked Jacobin, as well as

Pale-breasted Thrush at the fruit feeder.

After lunch we walked by a narrow road next to the town and found Orange-

chinned Parakeet, Summer and Blue-grey tanagers, Rusty-margined Flycatcher,

Crested Oropendola and Ochre-bellied Flycatcher. Earlier, before starting the walk,

we saw two very active Boat-billed flycatchers and a Buff-throated Saltator at the

parking lot of the restaurant-hotel.

Blue-gray Tanager ©Roger Rodríguez

Later we drove to Los Colores de la Sierra Hotel to spend the night there, not

without having a great stop to look for Black-and-White Owl, which we saw (in

fact, we saw two of them!).

Day 4. December 6. Trail at Los Colores de la Sierra Hotel, road to the

El Dorado Nature Reserve and birding on its surroundings

Early in the morning we walked by one of the trails that depart from our hotel. The

place offered us excellent birding time with species as Keel-billed Toucan, the

endemic Santa Marta Foliage-gleaner, Rufous-breasted and Rufous-and-white

wrens, Black-crowned Tityra, Yellow-backed Oriole, several warblers as Black-and-

White, Tennessee and Blackburnian, and American Redstart. The always beautiful

Crimson-backed Tanager also made his show.

Later, we moved to El Dorado Nature Reserve and arrived there for lunch. It wasn´t

long before we started enjoying the great array of birds of this place, with

hummingbird at the feeders as Crowned Woodnymph and Brown, Sparkling and



Lesser violetears. Later some of us saw the gorgeous endemic White-tailed

Starfrontlet. The compost pile, looking from the veranda, was a great and easy way

to see Band-tailed and Sickle-winged guans, Sierra Nevada Brush-Finch and Black-

chested Jay.

Later, when we were having dinner, the reserve staff called us telling that Grey-

handed Night Monkeys (Aotus griseimembra) and Kinkajous (Potus flavus) were

arriving to the banana feeder located next to the restaurant, on a tree. Immediately

we stop eating and went to see this great spectacle, before going to sleep on our

comfortable beds at El Dorado Nature Reserve.

Day 5. December 7. Top of the San Lorenzo Rigde and El Dorado

Nature Reserve.

The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (or Santa Marta Mountains), a UNESCO-

declared Biosphere Reserve, and a well-known Pleistocene refuge, is an isolated

mountain range, set apart from the Andes. Reaching an altitude of 5775 meters

(18942 feet) above sea level, the Sierra Nevada is the world´s highest costal peak

that holds the highest degree of endemism in the world per area unity. Now days,

there are about 24 Santa Marta endemic birds recognized, species you cannot see

anywhere else on earth, although taxonomic changes can increase this number in

the near future.

Santa Marta Parakeet. ©Roger Rodríguez

We left the lodge at 4:30 AM and spent two and a half hours at the highest

elevations that hold most of the endemic bird species of the Sierra Nevada. Very

soon after our arrival where we lucky to see a group of the endemic and critically

endangered Santa Marta Parakeet coming to feed on berries to several fruiting

trees next to the parking area. We were also glad to see Santa Marta Warbler, Santa



Marta (or Black-Cheeked) Mountain-Tanager, Santa Marta Brush-Finch, Yellow-

crowned Whitestart, Rusty-headed and Streak-capped spinetails, Scaly-naped

Amazon, the very shy Hermit Wood-Wren, and Tyrian Metaltail.

Santa Marta Brushfinch. ©Roger Rodríguez

Birding down the road to El Dorado and, later, walking around the lodge, we saw

White-throated Toucanet, Montane Woodcreeper, Montane Foliage-gleaner,

Golden-breasted Fruiteater, Black-hooded Trush, Black-capped Tanager, and

White-sided Flowerpiercer, among others birds.

We then went to the parking lot of the 4X4 vehicles and wait some time until

getting very happy to have great views of a White-tipped Quetzal female that, with

her pair, often crosses the parking lot near sunset. We were hoping that they don´t

miss the appointment that day, and they didn´t!

To finish a great day, after dinner we went to look for the endemic Santa Marta

Screech-Owl, of which we were very lucky to have at least a quick look, which is

not always possible!

Day 6. December 8. Visit to the “Ranchería Tocoronama" of the

Wayuu community to participate in a cultural demonstration.

This morning before leaving El Dorado Nature Reserve and moving to Santa Marta

and Riohacha, our breakfast was completed with great views of the stunning Blue-

naped chlorophonias having their own breakfast at the banana feeders, and several

Black-chested jays came very near to our window.



We then head North-East to the town of Camarones and its surrounding area,

where we arrived at mid-afternoon to the Tocoronama community, belonging to

the Wayuu ethnic group. There, we were received by one of their leaders, Angel

Pushaina, who plays the role of ‘palabrero’, a person that with the power of words

and of dialog helps solve the disagreements inside the community.

The Wayuus or Guajiros, which are an indigenous community of the peninsula of

La Guajira, on the Caribbean Coast, inhabit territories of Colombia and Venezuela.

Although the contact with the European conquerors dates from the 16th century,

the Wayuus were not conquered until the independence of Colombia and

Venezuela. This was influenced both by indigenous resistance and by the harsh

environmental conditions of the desert, which served as a refuge for the Wayuus.

The different daily activities, festivities and rituals widely imply the use of

traditional music. The work of grazing is accompanied by music produced by flutes

or canutillas. Whistles made of elements of the environment such as dried lemon

are used in livestock activities.

The indigenous yocna or yonna dance is used in celebrations related to the

development of women and involves steps where she advances in defiance of the

man, who recoils trying not to fall.

This day we had the opportunity to watch and enjoy that dance, to taste local food

specially prepared for us and to see the handicrafts made by the women.

At evening we drove to the city of Riohacha where we had a pleasant walk by its

colorful pier in front of the Caribbean Sea before going to our hotel.

Day 7. December 9. Dry scrub habitat of Camarones and its near

beach, and farewell lunch.

The Wayuu ethnicity is a matriarchal community where the children inherit

mother´s names and not men´s. Here, women are the ones who, since ancient

times, have taken control of their culture. The weaving of backpacks, bags and

colored blankets is the activity that is related to the essence and vision of women

and their offspring. Since very young age, they are trained in this art, nonetheless

for the past few years a group of five women have been interested in birdwatching

and when their time permits, they will be local guides. In order to stimulate her

work, today we went birding with one of them, Yerlis Pushaina, with the support of

a more experienced male guide of the region, Jhonis Alarza.

Early in the morning we walk with them by the xerophytic scrub habitat of

Camarones, which is the natural habitat of very attractive regional specialties.

There we saw Buffy Hummingbird, Red-billed Emerald, Russet-throated Puffbird,

Chestnut Piculet, Slender-billed Inezia, White-whiskered Spinetail, Grey Pileated



Finch, Tocuyo Sparrow, Northern White-fringed Antwren, Rufous Jacamar, and

others.

Later we visited a property where the owner, Eliberto Durán, better known as Don

Erick, has food feeders visited by Vermillion Cardinal and Orinoco Saltator, birds

hard to see in the forest but that here they come very quietly!

Vermilion cardinal. ©Eliana Ardila

Finally, we visited a nearby beach at Los Flamencos Sanctuary of Flora and Fauna

and enjoyed watching a good diversity of waders and shorebirds as American

Oystercatcher, Sanderling, Least and Semipalmated sandpipers, Willet, Black

Skimmer, Caspian, Royal, Least, Common and Sandwich terns, as well as Wood

Stork, Magnificent Frigatebird, Scarlet Ibis, Redish and Tricolored Heron, Little

Blue Heron, and Snowy Egret.

Royal Terns. ©Eliana Ardila



Once finished our great birding morning, we move to Finca La Jorará Eco Hotel,

were we had a very nice farewell lunch before heading back to our hotel in

Barranquilla, for the last night of our tour.

Day 8. December 10. Flights back home.

The tour finished today and participants were transferred to the airport for their

national or international flights.



Birds List

Chachalacas, Curassows & Guans Cracidae

Chestnut-winged Chachalaca

Ortalis garrula

Band-tailed Guan

Penelope argyrotis

Sickle-winged Guan

Chamaepetes goudotii

Screamers Anhimidae

Northern Screamer

Chauna chavaria

Ducks, Geese & Swans Anatidae

White-faced Whistling Duck

Dendrocygna viduata

Muscovy Duck

Cairina moschata

Blue-winged Teal

Spatula discors

Hummingbirds Trochilidae

Lazuline Sabrewing

Campylopterus falcatus

White-necked Jacobin

Florisuga mellivora mellivora

Brown Violetear

Colibri delphinae

Lesser Violetear

Colibri cyanotus cyanotus

Sparkling Violetear

Colibri coruscans coruscans

Red-billed Emerald

Chlorostilbon gibsoni

Crowned Woodnymph

Thalurania colombica



Shining-green Hummingbird

Lepidopyga goudoti

Buffy Hummingbird

Leucippus fallax

Steely-vented Hummingbird

Amazilia saucerottei

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

Amazilia tzacatl

White-vented Plumeleteer

Chalybura buffonii

White-tailed Starfrontlet

Coeligena phalerata

Tyrian Metaltail

Metallura tyrianthina

Cuckoos Cuculidae

Smooth-billed Ani

Crotophaga ani

Groove-billed Ani

Crotophaga sulcirostris

Squirrel Cuckoo

Piaya cayana

Pigeons and Doves Columbidae

Rock Dove

Columba livia var. Domestica

Band-tailed Pigeon

Patagioenas fasciata albilinea

Scaled Dove

Columbina squammata ridgwayi

Common Ground Dove

Columbina passerine

Ruddy Ground Dove

Columbina talpacoti

White-tipped Dove

Leptotila verreauxi

Rails, Crakes & Coots Rallidae



Purple Gallinule

Porphyrio martinica

Limpkin Aramidae

Limpkin

Aramus guarauna guarauna

Oystercatchers Haematopodidae

American Oystercatcher

Haematopus palliatus palliates

Stilts and Avocets Recurvirostridae

Black-necked Stilt

Himantopus mexicanus mexicanus

Plovers and Lapwings Charadriidae

Southern Lapwing

Vanellus chilensis cayennensis

Semipalmated Plover

Charadrius semipalmatus

Killdeer

Charadrius vociferus

Jacanas Jacanidae

Wattled Jacana

Jacana jacana

Sandpipers and Allies Scolopacidae

Whimbrel

Numenius phaeopus hudsonicus

Marbled Godwit

Limosa fedoa fedoa

Sanderling

Calidris alba rubida

Least Sandpiper

Calidris minutilla

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Calidris pusilla

Spotted Sandpiper

Actitis macularius



Solitary Sandpiper

Tringa solitaria solitaria

Lesser Yellowlegs

Tringa flavipes

Willet

Tringa semipalmata

Greater Yellowlegs

Tringa melanoleuca

Gulls, Terns & Skimmers Laridae

Black Skimmer

Rynchops niger cinerascens

Laughing Gull

Leucophaeus atricilla

Caspian Tern

Hydroprogne caspia

Sandwich Tern

Thalasseus sandvicensis

Royal Tern

Thalasseus maximus maximus

Least Tern

Sternula antillarum antillarum

Common Tern

Sterna hirundo hirundo

Large-billed Tern

Phaetusa simplex

Storks Ciconiidae

Wood Stork

Mycteria americana

Frigatebirds Fregatidae

Magnificent Frigatebird

Fregata magnificens

Cormorants and Shags Phalacrocoracidae

Neotropic Cormorant

Phalacrocorax brasilianus brasilianus

Anhingas Anhingidae



Anhinga

Anhinga anhinga

Ibises, Spoonbills Threskiornithidae

Bare-faced Ibis

Phimosus infuscatus berlepschi

American White Ibis

Eudocimus albus ramobustorum

Scarlet Ibis

Eudocimus ruber

Roseate Spoonbill

Platalea ajaja

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns Ardeidae

Bare-throated Tiger Heron

Tigrisoma mexicanum

Black-crowned Night Heron

Nycticorax nycticorax hoactli

Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Nyctanassa violacea cayennensis

Green Heron

Butorides virescens virescens

Striated Heron

Butorides striata striata

Western Cattle Egret

Bubulcus ibis

Great Blue Heron

Ardea Herodias

Great Egret

Ardea alba egretta

Reddish Egret

Egretta rufescens rufescens

Tricolored Heron

Egretta tricolor ruficollis

Little Blue Heron

Egretta caerulea

Snowy Egret

Egretta thula



Pelicans Pelecanidae

Brown Pelican

Pelecanus occidentalis

New World Vultures Cathartidae

Turkey Vulture

Cathartes aura

Black Vulture

Coragyps atratus

Osprey Pandionidae

Western Osprey

Pandion haliaetus carolinensis

Kites, Hawks & Eagles Accipitridae

Grey-headed Kite

Leptodon cayanensis cayanensis

Snail Kite

Rostrhamus sociabilis sociabilis

Savanna Hawk

Buteogallus meridionalis

Roadside Hawk

Rupornis magnirostris magnirostris

Owls Strigidae

Santa Marta Screech Owl

Megascops gilesi

Black-and-white Owl

Strix nigrolineata

Ferruginous Pygmy Owl

Glaucidium brasilianum

Trogons Trogonidae

White-tipped Quetzal

Pharomachrus fulgidus festatus

Kingfishers Alcedinidae

Amazon Kingfisher

Chloroceryle amazona



Ringed Kingfisher

Megaceryle torquata torquata

Motmots Momotidae

Whooping Motmot

Momotus subrufescens

Jacamars Galbulidae

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Galbula ruficauda

Puffbirds Bucconidae

Pied Puffbird

Notharchus tectus subtectus

Russet-throated Puffbird

Hypnelus ruficollis

Toucans Ramphastidae

White-throated Toucanet

Aulacorhynchus albivitta

Keel-billed Toucan

Ramphastos sulfuratus brevicarinatus

Woodpeckers Picidae

Chestnut Piculet

Picumnus cinnamomeus

Red-crowned Woodpecker

Melanerpes rubricapillus rubricapillus

Red-rumped Woodpecker

Veniliornis kirkii cecilii

Golden-olive Woodpecker

Colaptes rubiginosus

Falcons and Caracaras Falconidae

Northern Crested Caracara

Caracara cheriway

Yellow-headed Caracara

Milvago chimachima cordata

American Kestrel

Falco sparverius



Peregrine Falcon

Falco peregrinus cassini

African & New World Parrots Psittacidae

Orange-chinned Parakeet

Brotogeris jugularis

Blue-headed Parrot

Pionus menstruus

Scaly-naped Amazon

Amazona mercenarius canipalliata

Santa Marta Parakeet

Pyrrhura viridicata

Brown-throated Parakeet

Eupsittula pertinax

Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers Furnariidae

Cocoa Woodcreeper

Xiphorhynchus susurrans

Straight-billed Woodcreeper

Dendroplex picus

Streak-headed Woodcreeper

Lepidocolaptes souleyetii

Montane Woodcreeper

Lepidocolaptes lacrymiger

Montane Foliage-gleaner

Anabacerthia striaticollis

Santa Marta Foliage-gleaner

Clibanornis rufipectus

Streak-capped Spinetail

Cranioleuca hellmayri

Yellow-chinned Spinetail

Certhiaxis cinnamomeus

White-whiskered Spinetail

Synallaxis candei

Rusty-headed Spinetail

Synallaxis fuscorufa

Antbirds Thamnophilidae



Northern White-fringed Antwren

Formicivora intermedia

Black-crested Antshrike

Sakesphorus canadensis

Santa Marta Antbird

Drymophila hellmayri

Antpittas Grallariidae

Santa Marta Antpitta

Grallaria bangsi

Rusty-breasted Antpitta

Grallaricula ferrugineipectus

Tapaculos Rhinocryptidae

Brown-rumped Tapaculo

Scytalopus latebricola

Tyrant Flycatchers Tyrannidae

Mountain Elaenia

Elaenia frantzii

Southern Beardless Tyrannulet

Camptostoma obsoletum

White-throated Tyrannulet

Mecocerculus leucophrys

Coopmans's Tyrannulet

Zimmerius minimus minimus

Olive-striped Flycatcher

Mionectes olivaceus

Ochre-bellied Flycatcher

Mionectes oleagineus

Northern Scrub Flycatcher

Sublegatus arenarum

Slender-billed Inezia

Inezia tenuirostris

Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant

Hemitriccus margaritaceiventer

Pale-eyed Pygmy Tyrant

Atalotriccus pilaris



Common Tody-Flycatcher

Todirostrum cinereum

Vermilion Flycatcher

Pyrocephalus obscurus

Pied Water Tyrant

Fluvicola pica

Cattle Tyrant

Machetornis rixosa

Rusty-margined Flycatcher

Myiozetes cayanensis

Great Kiskadee

Pitangus sulphuratus

Golden-crowned Flycatcher

Myiodynastes chrysocephalus

Streaked Flycatcher

Myiodynastes maculatus

Boat-billed Flycatcher

Megarynchus pitangua

Tropical Kingbird

Tyrannus melancholicus

Grey Kingbird

Tyrannus dominicensis dominicensis

Panama Flycatcher

Myiarchus panamensis

Brown-crested Flycatcher

Myiarchus tyrannulus tyrannulus

Bright-rumped Attila

Attila spadiceus

Cotingas Cotingidae

Golden-breasted Fruiteater

Pipreola aureopectus decora

Tityras, Becards Tityridae

Black-crowned Tityra

Tityra inquisitor

Vireos, Greenlets Vireonidae



Rufous-browed Peppershrike

Cyclarhis gujanensis

Red-eyed Vireo

Vireo olivaceus

Scrub Greenlet

Hylophilus flavipes

Crows, Jays, and Magpies Corvidae

Black-chested Jay

Cyanocorax affinis affinis

Swallows Hirundinidae

Southern Rough-winged Swallow

Stelgidopteryx ruficollis

Wrens Troglodytidae

Stripe-backed Wren

Campylorhynchus nuchalis pardus

Bicolored Wren

Campylorhynchus griseus

Rufous-breasted Wren

Pheugopedius rutilus

Rufous-and-white Wren

Thryophilus rufalbus

House Wren

Troglodytes aedon

Grey-breasted Wood Wren

Henicorhina leucophrys

Hermit Wood Wren

Henicorhina anachoreta

Gnatcatchers Polioptilidae

Tropical Gnatcatcher

Polioptila plumbea

Mockingbirds, Thrashers Mimidae

Tropical Mockingbird

Mimus gilvus

Thrushes and Allies Turdidae



Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush

Catharus aurantiirostris

Black-hooded Thrush

Turdus olivater

Pale-breasted Thrush

Turdus leucomelas

Old World Sparrows Passeridae

House Sparrow

Passer domesticus

Finches Fringillidae

Thick-billed Euphonia

Euphonia laniirostris

Blue-naped Chlorophonia

Chlorophonia cyanea

New World Buntings and Sparrows Passerellidae

Rufous-collared Sparrow

Zonotrichia capensis

Tocuyo Sparrow

Arremonops tocuyensis

Sierra Nevada Brushfinch

Arremon basilicus

Santa Marta Brushfinch

Atlapetes melanocephalus

Oropendolas, Orioles & Blackbirds Icteridae

Crested Oropendola

Psarocolius decumanus

Yellow-backed Oriole

Icterus chrysater giraudii

Yellow Oriole

Icterus nigrogularis nigrogularis

Carib Grackle

Quiscalus lugubris lugubris

Great-tailed Grackle

Quiscalus mexicanus peruvianus

New World Warblers Parulidae



Northern Waterthrush

Parkesia noveboracensis

Black-and-white Warbler

Mniotilta varia

Prothonotary Warbler

Protonotaria citrea

Tennessee Warbler

Leiothlypis peregrina

American Redstart

Setophaga ruticilla

Blackburnian Warbler

Setophaga fusca

Santa Marta Warbler

Myiothlypis basilica

Rufous-capped Warbler

Basileuterus rufifrons mesochrysus

Yellow-crowned Whitestart

Myioborus flavivertex

Cardinals, Grosbeaks and allies Cardinalidae

Summer Tanager

Piranga rubra rubra

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Pheucticus ludovicianus

Vermilion Cardinal

Cardinalis phoeniceus

Tanagers and allies Thraupidae

Crimson-backed Tanager

Ramphocelus dimidiatus

Blue-grey Tanager

Thraupis episcopus

Glaucous Tanager

Thraupis glaucocolpa

Palm Tanager

Thraupis palmarum

Santa Marta Mountain Tanager

Anisognathus melanogenys



Bay-headed Tanager

Tangara gyrola

Black-capped Tanager

Tangara heinei

Bicolored Conebill

Conirostrum bicolor bicolor

White-sided Flowerpiercer

Diglossa albilatera albilatera

Grey Pileated Finch

Coryphospingus pileatus

Saffron Finch

Sicalis flaveola flaveola

Buff-throated Saltator

Saltator maximus

Greyish Saltator

Saltator coerulescens

Orinoco Saltator

Saltator orenocensis

Thick-billed Seedfinch

Sporophila funerea

Bananaquit

Coereba flaveola

Black-faced Grassquit

Tiaris bicolor

Documents

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